Scott Hall (born October 20, 1958) is a American professional wrestler best known in the WWF as Razor Ramon and (more famously) in WCW under as one of "The Outsiders" (alongside real-life friends Hulk Hogan and Kevin Nash), which formed the basis for the wrestling supergroup the New World Order in 1996. After WCW's demise, he had brief runs in both WWE (as part of the reborn nWo) and TNA (with fellow Kliq members Nash and Sean "X-Pac" Waltman).

A performer of no small skill, Hall remains over with fans today who remember him as a lovably douchey heel. But those pops come with a price tag. Hall is infamous for no-showing events, his rap sheet is bigger than his arm, and most of his career has been spent drying out instead of working, to the point where WWE (which foots the bill for any current or former contracted employees who enter rehab) has spent more on Hall's detox than any other performer. These off-screen issues — which were notoriously turned into an angle during Hall's last lap in WCW — reduced one of the industry's most promising talents into one of its biggest cautionary tales.

"Hey yo, check out the Bad Guy's tropes, chico!"

The Alcoholic: In spite of his love for the character and the wrestling business, he can't come within three feet of alcohol without risking a relapse. WCWevenmade it part ofhis character as "Last Call" Scott Hall; nobody was amused and his ex-wife even wrote a letter to WCW complaining about it. WWE did not set up a match for Kevin Nash for WrestleMania X-8 as a precaution, since in the event that Hall somehow screwed up and got fired at any time before the show, they would just be able to plug Nash into Hall's place as "Stone Cold" Steve Austin's opponent. (Note: Hall DID eventually screw up and get fired, but, it was a month later.) He even missed Shawn Michaels's Hall of Fame Induction because it wasn't a dry party, and he still fell off the wagon that weekend when he worked an independent show in Boston. Since 2012, however, DDP has been helping Hall and Jake "The Snake" Roberts to the point where they are now completely clean.

Of himself. Early in his WCW run as one half of the Outsiders, he could not use the Razor Ramon gimmick for copyright reasons, so he simply used his real name and continued to talk, act and even dress like Razor Ramon. So much so that he was named personally as one of the several reasons the WWE threatened legal action during the early days of the nWo storyline.

Cool Old Guy: Has settled into this role with the younger talent at NXT, imparting wisdom and advice.

The Creon: Turned down a run with the AWA Championship, and later the WWF Championship, because he was content at being in an upper-midcard spot and not having to carry the weight of the company on his shoulders. It was one of the reasons he was such a successful Intercontinental Champion.

Defeat Means Friendship: After losing to the 1-2-3 Kid on Raw, Razor turned face shortly after and became a mentor to The Kid.

Drives Like Crazy: According to Hall, he must have flipped five or more caddies in his WCW days, including two in the same day.

His run in the American Wrestling Association, years before achieving fame in the WWF. He sported a curly mullet, a large mustache, and bulked up to 300 pounds (which he attributed to steroids). In fact, pretty much anything he did before he developed the look he had as the Diamond Studd in 1991 would qualify. He was a blond in the two-ring battle royal at NWA The Great American Bash 89.

His early house show appearances as Razor Ramon had him as a Badass Biker.

Earn Your Happy Ending: As of 2013, he's clean from drugs and alcohol for the first time in years, he's rebuilding his relationships with his children, regaining his life and reputation and his general health is the best it's been for years, but it's been a long, hard road with a lot of pain along the way.

An impression of Al Pacino as Tony Montana in Scarface, complete with a bad Cuban Accent, by way of Dana Carvey (though for some reason, Razor Ramon looked and acted more like Manny than Tony Montana). The funniest part, is that he showed up for his (then) WWF audition, and was explicitly doing a Scarface impression to show he can "do characters". Vince McMahon, having literally never seen or been fully aware of the movie, thought Scott was doing an original concept and thought it was brilliant. A bit of tweaking and name-brainstorming, and Razor Ramon was born.

Brandon Stroud: Hall eventually made the character self-aware enough that when he showed up in WCW going HEY YO we were in on the joke, but man, watching him dress like an 80-year old retired Floridian woman and say "mang" to a crowd of white children is depressing. I BEAD UP JOO BRUDDER, MANG.

Though Razor was a frequent presence on WWF TV, as an Outsider he became a permanent fixture of the main event scene. Scott Hall was a talented big guy who had the crowd in his pocket. There was only one thing keeping him from going to the top, and it was him. Hall stopped coming to shows sober and was relegated to non-wrestling cameos. The bookers attempted to make his alcoholism look like a work, possibly at Hall's urging. He remained over to the bitter end, even as WCW forbid anyone from even mentioning Hall's name in 2000, despite chants of "WE WANT HALL". Heck, the fans popped for his picture,◊ people.

He had a mild comeback in TNA, but fell back into old habits and was released. Samoa Joe cut a Turning Point promo where he nicknamed Hall "the Phantom of the Impact Zone", and since Nash was in attendance, he had words with Joe after that show. Hall would no-show two additional PPVs after that: He backed out of Genesis with hours to go before showtime, having apparently lost his confidence.

I Was Quite a Looker: Compare the image for this page with the one linked to in the caption. Fifteen years makes a difference, but for most people it doesn't make that much of one. His various addictions had a hand in this.

Fortunately inverted when he got clean. He lost most of his excess weight, got his tan(not to mention his old swagger) back, and aside from his hair now being a distinguished silver, he looks much like the Razor of old.

It Runs in the Family: In his own words, he comes from a "long line of hard drinking rednecks", in that both his parents and grandparents were all alcoholics. This obviously continued with him but, thankfully, neither of his children have become drinkers, much to Scott's relief.

Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He retained much of the same mannerisms he had as a heel long into his face turn. It's probably the reason his face turn was so successful, despite the fact that anti-heroes were very rare in pre-Attitude Era WWF.

Latin Lover: Chicas are for fun, mang! Razor scars their hearts and does not care!

Lost in Character: He had a real life Oral Fixation to toothpicks until DDP cured him of the habit. That tells you everything you need to know. Hall is as addicted to the high of being "Razor Ramon" as he is to alcohol. That's an unfortunate side-effect of the old territory system, when wrestlers never dropped character and occasionally got lost in kayfabe. Hopefully, Scott will prove stronger than Razor.

Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Ultimately, the reason he kept pulling a check was because his old Kliq buddies were running WCW (and later TNA, if we're being honest). That aside, he's said to be the least malicious member of the group: He's actually claimed in interviews that he declined from holding the World Title in both major companies during the Monday Night War, and Kevin Nash has cited that whenever Scott worked with Jeff Hardy during Jeff's jobber days he always gave Jeff little bits of offensenote something that was virtually unheard of in those days because he felt Jeff was a special talent.

Spiteful Spit: Liked to spit the toothpick in his opponent's face just to provoke them.

On the June 18, 1998 episode of Thunder, The Giant was billed as "Big Tobacco;" basically Hall with a cigarette instead of a toothpick. Yes, that happened.

His spot in The Band was eventually filled by Jeff Jarrett after Hall no-showed Turning Point '07. His initial replacement? Eric Young of all people (though to be fair, it was more Joe replacing Nash's buddy with his own).

Verbal Tic: While as Razor Ramon, and sometimes during WCW, he tended to end most of his sentences with either "chico" or "mang". This carried over for a few months when he moved to WCW and used his own (decidedly non-Latino) name. Just check out this promo for an example.

Wacky Fratboy Hijinx: Hall, as part of the Outsiders with Kevin Nash, and in the nWo, was one of the pioneers of this in wrestling.

Wham Line: "You know who I am, but you don't know why I'm here... You want a war? You're gonna get one."

Wham Shot: An idle Monday Nitro on May 27, 1996 has a match between Steve Doll and the Mauler, with not too much to get excited about. So why is the crowd suddenly at their feet? Because Razor Ramon just walked through the crowd and down to the arena floor, and then proceeds to say the line above.

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